Of course they renounced many things
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It is good
to be in the world: that is the message of the Upanishads. The Upanishadic
seers were not ascetic. Of course they renounced many things, but the
renunciation came not through effort, it came through understanding, it came
through meditation. They renounced the ego because they saw that it is just a
manufactured entity by the mind. It has no reality, no substance in it; it is
pure shadow, and to waste your life with it is stupid. To say that they
renounced is not right; it will be better to say that because they became so
aware it withered away on its own accord. They became non-possessive. It is not that they did not possess things,
but they became non-possessive. They USED things. They were not
beggars. They lived joyously, enjoying everything that was available to
them, but they were not possessive, they were not clingers. That is
true renunciation: living in the world and yet remaining absolutely
non-possessive. They loved, but they were not jealous. They loved
totally but without any ego trip, without any idea to dominate the
other. Wisdom
happens only through meditation; it never happens by collecting information. It
happens by going through a transformation. Wisdom is the flowering of your
consciousness, the opening of the one-thousand-petalled lotus of your being. It
is the release of your fragrance, the release of the imprisoned splendour. Real philosophy has nothing to do with thinking; on the contrary it has
everything to do with transcending thinking, going beyond and beyond
thinking, going beyond mind, reaching to the pure space of no-mind. Out
of that space something flowers in you. You can call it
Christ-consciousness, Buddhahood, or whatsoever you like. That is true
philosophy.
